Department of Environmental Sciences (DES) is one of five Departments of the Faculty of Science at UTS. The Department is located on Level 5 of Building 4, the new science building on the corner of Harris and Thomas Streets, Broadway where it has newly outfitted laboratories with excellent facilities and equipment for field work and laboratory / glasshouse experimentation.

The Department’s activities in teaching, research and research consulting focus on integrated understanding of the natural and impacted environments, through the knowledge of interactions among plants and animals in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The scpecific emphasis in teaching and research is on the effects of environmental changes in climate and human activities on the already fragile Australian ecosystems, and the development of scientific understanding required for their management and conservation.

The Department offers the following undergraduate degrees:

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Forensics
Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology

The following Environmental Science majors are offered to Bachelor of Science students:

Environmental Biology
Urban Ecology

Environmental Science majors are also offered in the double degrees with Business, Law, Engineering and International Studies.

Current enrolment in these programs is over 300 students. More information about the structure and content of these degrees can be found at the Environmental Sciences Courses home page. Information on enrolling can be found on the Faculty's courses page.

The Department contributes one of the most dynamic areas of research in the Faculty of Science. It ranks in the top one third of successful ARC grant applications, has excellent cross-institutional and industry collaborative links that have provided support for staff research and stipends for postgraduate students. These external linkages are further supported by our Centres of Expertise.

Most of the research is integrated in two major areas: within the newly established Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Centre (C3) and with the Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management (IWERM) . Both provide opportunities for transdisciplinary research within the Faculty of Science and across other UTS faculties.

A full range of postgraduate and Honours degrees are offered by DES with over 50 postgraduates students currently enrolled in a range of Honours, Masters and Doctoral studies. See News and Announcements on this page for a list of the Honours projects for 2009.